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A very Fine Irish Mahogany bookcase and/or collector's cabinet. Circa 1750. Provenance: Portaferry House, Northern Ireland.
Portaferry house is a Georgian country house built around 1760 by Andrew Savage, a Captain in the First Battalion of the Regimento de Infantrerie de Hibernia, of the Spanish Army of King Philip V of Spain. Andrew Savage extended the house with a west wing, completed in 1818, and this treasured mahogany cabinet would have sat very proudly in one of those rooms.
- Dimensions:Height: 274 in (695.96 cm)Width: 198 in (502.92 cm)Depth: 59 in (149.86 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:Ireland, Northern
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:C. 1750
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10037243439262
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